Village Blacksmith, LLC

What this is

Village Blacksmith is a microconsultancy that works with growing businesses.

It's also a tiny product company that makes things like:

Who I am

I'm Justin Duke. I have five years of client-facing experience working with large companies like Amazon and small companies like TenantBase and Emburse. I like writing in Python, Swift, and English.

Get in touch

If any of this sounds interesting, we should chat. Whether you're interested in collaborating on a project, booking a short-term consultation, or just want a sounding board, I'd love to talk.

Send me an email and I'll be in touch shortly.

Updates

Update: May 2017
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Update: February 2017
Update: January 2017
Update: December 2016
Update: November 2016

Writing

Getting the admin link for an object in Django
Adding comments to package.json
Detecting new webcams without restarting on Mac
Deploying Hugo to S3 with s3cmd
Creating Hacker News Share Links Seeded with a URL and Title
The CocoaPods I Used in Barback 4
Checking for Debug mode in Swift
Removing trailing whitespace from Swift files on your Mac
Setting up Twitter Cards in Hugo
Avoiding UICollectionViewController crashes when reloading data
A regular expression to detect Markdown ordered lists
Extracting an image from an RSS feed in Python
Getting the current absolute URL as a Django variable
Empty states in Isotope
Sorting by UIColor
Embedding Markdown in YAML